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• window leaks & wiper control
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 2 Nov 95 09:40:11 EST
  ...I'm thinking of getting some spray electircal cleaner and spraying into the steering column where the wiper contol stalk enters. Is this a...
• gas tank overflow and another question.
  Historical mailing list - Robert S. Williams, MD
  Thu, 9 Apr 1998 21:30:37 -0500
  ...take out the steering column and all like that... surely there must be an easier way... I thought about finding a shop with a...
• Fwd: Re: Wire Gauges for Solar panels for your Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Etter
  Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:59:02 -0300
  ...INDUSTRIES" > >Spread your page out wide and let's hope the columns line up... > > David(dsl82westy) >P.S.: anyone wishing an original of this...
• Re: Bentley wiring diagram. Questions on how to read.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:30:39 -0800
  ...The track numbers are associated with the whole vertical "column," not the end of the wire at the bottom. You're not really ignoring...
• Re: repro the westfalia ID sticker on the RF door...anyone done it??
  Historical mailing list - Zolly
  Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:52:40 -0700
  If you are referring to that black label on the driver's side B column, all should have it. Although the Canadian models have...
• Re: Headlights Not Working!
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:42:22 EDT
  ...No amount of clicking the stalk on the steering column will get the high beam indicator to go off. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance...
• Fixing turn signals, was: Turn signals won't auto turn off
  Historical mailing list - Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
  Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:03:47 -0500
  Tom- This problem usually crops up when one or both of the springs come off the "canceling cam" in your steering column. Sounds ominous...
• Re: Rear Window Wiper Retrofit
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:00:00 EDT
  ...The wiring is clearly NOT in place. :( Instead of using the VW column switch I just installed a seperate switch to operate the wiper...
• Re: Cylinder Identification
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:32:49 -0600
  ...At the top of the page are three columns headed Air Cooled, Diesel and Water Cooled, respectively. Below that are two tables with torque...
• Re: Dieing problem driving me nuts
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:57:05 -0700
  ...You don't even need to do the hard part now, just pop off the steering column cover and pull the connector. Plug in...
• Re: Intermittent door chime - something's brewing?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff
  Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:37:01 -0800
  ...in > a while when the door is open... << > > Before you go tearing into the steering column, first check out the > door switch. > > George/ATL
• Re: NVC [Friday] Natural Gas regulator
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:31:29 -0800
  ...Different ratings. > (yes, NG 3" of Water Column, LP 10-13" of WC) >
• '71 Ignition Switch
  Historical mailing list - Joseph F. Fournier II
  Sat, 11 Nov 1995 17:48:17 -0600 (CST)
  ...I disassembled the entire steering column, per Bentley. I see no benefit to this, however, since the switch itself seems to be impossible to...
• Re: heres some sport seats for your vanagon...
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Fri, 1 Nov 2002 23:05:17 +1300
  ...I will eventually fit this seat to my Caravelle, but I will have a tilt column fitted by then, so hopefully entry-egress won...
• Re: South Africa Vanagown
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:28:57 +1200
  ...may be a bolt-in job if the RHD mounting points are already present and steering-column/pedal apertures are prepunched and blanked off...
• Re: [WetWesties] MICE: points of ingress in cab area?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:47:06 -0700
  the boot at bottom of steering column sink drain (lost the foam gasket? ditto with tank drain Alistair '82 westy, diesel converted to gas...
• Re: My Aux. batt. 'glitch' is fixed..
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 9 Nov 2007 23:29:58 -0500
  ...So I stuck a toggle switch into the power supply wires, put it next to the steering column under the dash, and no more...
• Re: Bearing service
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:34:42 -0600
  ...Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote: > The latch post at the rear column is adjustable; it may have loosened up. > > Karl Wolz > > -----Original Message----- > From...
• Electrical Thanks
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 May 1996 23:28:56 -0700
  ...My steering column has something wrong. The little plastic thing at the bottom broke and I have no idea how to replace it. Any...
• Re: Quiet Horn.
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:06:45 -0400
  ...I addded a new spade connector to the ground on the lower steering column, the one there was in BAD shape. I hope its...
• Re: Installing AMP in Vanagon..wiring SNAFU
  Historical mailing list - Tracey Estevez
  Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:56:13 -0400
  ...They are all crimped together at the end and are connected to nothing...dangling under the steering column. Question: are these VW brown wires...
• Re: Heffalump Sighting
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:55:22 -0400
  ...shop in my son's 97 Jetta working on the >steering column when a Brown/Tan Wolfsburg went eastbound on Rte 50 here in...
• Re: LP regulator tester. PIC + Question
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:31:51 -0700
  ...With bleed hole open, it had 7 column inches. As I had mentioned earlier, likely the heat of the afternoon sun that f'd...
• Re: rear heater core in front, was: New thermostat funky?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:39:36 -0500
  ...bolts for the steering column , 3 screws for the heater controls, four for the instruments, 2 screws for the column covers, plus disconnecting the...
• Re: New tires, now my Westy wanders a bit
  Historical mailing list - Phil S.
  Wed, 29 May 2002 19:51:00 -0700
  ...the suspension parts and therefor transfer more energy to your steering column, trailing arms, shocks, bushings etc... When I installed these, the 1st thing...
• Re: 87 GL: Removing and Replacing Radio Antenna
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:55:33 -0800
  ...There is also an alarming bit about > "drilling out" some steering column bolts...furthermore, I can't even > see where the antenna plugs into...
• Re: Ampacity was Re: Headlight Upgrade Double Check (fuses)
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:56:33 -0700
  ...that you have to de-rate as shown in the subsequent > column(s) > > Yrs, > David > > -- Neil n 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly...
• Re: Testing Vanagon Headlight Switch
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:44:18 -0400
  ...Without looking at the book again I'd be highly suspicious of the high/low switch on the column, but blest if I can...
• Re: Power Steering Rack Question
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:03:46 -0700
  for the metrically deficient wrench owner, a 15/16 socket will fit the nut on the steering column fine. funny how, for me anyway...
• Re: What? You Wanted Heat?!?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 29 May 2000 09:27:56 -0400
  ...way to do this without taking off the dash and steering >column? Yes there is really no way unless you have access to the...
• Re: Government MPG ratings site - updated link
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:59:45 -0800
  ...http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/calculatorCompareSideBySide.jsp?column=1 8423> &id=8423 There are Vanagon's listed as well!!! Jack R. --------------------------------- Looking for last...
• '88 Power Steering - Update
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:50:09 PDT
  ...Listened for bearing noise in column - very little. So I'm thinking, it doesn't seem like a rack would do this if it...
• relays, gremlins
  Historical mailing list - Woody Halsey
  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:39:48 -0400
  ...I strongly recommend that you try this simple solution first, before you start taking the dash board apart, dismantling the steering column or chasing...
• Re: leaking clutch master cylinder?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:49:17 -0800
  ...has been fluid (brake, i assume) showing up on the steering column near the clutch pedal on our '82 westy, suggesting a leak up...
• Re: Propane Tank Cover?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Sat, 6 Jan 2007 11:22:08 -0500
  ...When the regulator lowers the pressure from tank pressure , to 11 inches of water column( about 1/2 psi), the propane gets very cool...
• Re: Horn problem
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:30:28 -0400
  ...While parked, > ignition on, no horn rim, turned the steering wheel and the horn blows. > Crazy! Drop,the steering column electrical harness and found...
• Re: tumbler removal
  Historical mailing list - John Brown
  Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:16:13 -0700
  ...tumbler removal >I have the housing off the steering wheel column..What's the trick to >extracting the tumbler from it? SO ignored my...
• Ignition Switch Mystery Continues...anybody out there????
  Historical mailing list - kevin obrien
  Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:05:10 -0700
  ...Bought one...and to check it I removed the plastic panel from beneath the steering column...pulled the wiring plug off the old switch...
• Re: Sound improvement success
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:41:10 -0400
  ...Sound improvement success > >> > >> Now, if I could just fix the squeak made by the steering wheel turning > >> against the plastic column I be really...
• Re: FW: Front Blower - Help! (while we're on the subject)
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:46:43 EDT
  ...is to buy the Vice-Grip brand pliers for the steering column bolts. It took them out with no trouble.) One question to someone...
• Re: Wierd Electrical Gremlins
  Historical mailing list - Mark Upton
  Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:53:25 -0500
  Jason,This happened to me,Try pushing the plug to ignition wires going to the Key on the steering column.I had to replace...
• Re: A radical idea
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Lee Harrison
  Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:58:03 +0000
  ...Additionally, you can replace the torsion bolts on the steering column with normal bolts which makes things easier (I cut a slit in them...
• Re: Any hints on installing Sirius Sat Radio in Westy?
  Historical mailing list - Tom S
  Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:20:55 -0500
  ...Then ran the wires down the column. Did you know that if you have high speed Internet access you can also play Sirius through...
• Re: 1984 Speedos
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:46:30 -0700
  ...You can go to www.snurl.com/vanagon and it is listed in the right column. Actually if you like any of the stuff...
• Frydaye Follies?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:26:17 -0600
  ...if not, straighten out the columns. :) Find the hidden words Volkswagen H D V D Y E U R O V A N O...
• Re: mystery connector coming off rear heater circuit on my '84
  Historical mailing list - tolga
  Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:52:49 -0500
  ...off the fuse box on the end closest to >> the steering column. It orginates on a 2 fuse panel to the right of my...
• Re: vanagon spotted on TV
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:49:51 -0600
  ...Then they >>> hotwired it under the steering column with no attention to the steering >>> wheel lock. >>> The shots of the engine compartment looked realistic...
• Re: Heater fan replacment description requested.
  Historical mailing list - dworkin
  Mon, 9 Jan 1995 20:18:57 -0800 (PST)
  ...to do this on my '78 to replace something in the column. If they did not change the design, then the story goes like...
• Re: horn problems
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:23:29 -0800
  ...The root cause was that the ground wire that clips to the steering column under the steering wheel horn button was not making contact...
• Re: Leaking Clutch Master Cylinder Help Needed
  Historical mailing list - Tom Brunson
  Mon, 1 Dec 1997 04:12:29 UT
  ...I'm now ready to remove the instrument panel but need to know whether I need to remove the steering wheel and column and...
• Re: Real time help needed
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:54:52 -0700
  ...Power is present at hall >> sensor plug. >> >> I did try ign switch spare , hanging off column. No diff. >> >> Thanks for all the suggestions. It...
• Re: Dashmount options for smartphones?
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:34:07 -0700
  ...knee) vent. > > One really swell spot would be atop the steering column -- allowing for > room under the phone for the charger plug, the phone...
• Re: Headlight dim switch part of turn signal switch?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:14:44 -0400
  ...I traced it >>> down to >>> the >>> dim/bright switch on the column. (replaced the main headlight >>> switch last >>> year) If I purchase a turn...
• Re: '86 a/c rotary combo thermostat/fan switch - where to get a replacement?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:20:36 -0400
  ...it's the same switch >> as you have on your '86 (goes to the left of the steering column). >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> Mike Collum wrote: >>> Here...
• Re: What cruise control system should I buy/
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 19 Dec 1996 19:14:40 -0500
  ...I mounted it on top of the steering column cover between the steering wheel and the gauges. Very handy placement. > How well does it...
• Re: Best VW Bus Article Ever Written?
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Sat, 7 Jun 2008 02:57:40 +0000
  ...Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM> > This guy needs to get out of my head :o) > > http://www.sanjuanislander.com/columns/shus-views/main.shtml > > > > -- > Pete...
• Clutch musings...
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:34:35 -0800
  ...it looks REAL familiar...Uhh...I go spelunking around under the column and sure enough, I had already replaced that mastercylinder, thinking all that...
• Copy of: Re: Tiny orange switch right of steering column below dash?
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  18 Jan 97 23:08:11 EST
  ...Tiny orange switch right of steering column below dash? >Oh, no you are not being rude. I just don't know what's going...
• Re: Steering column cover needed
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:36:15 -0400
  I’ll take it off tomorrow and describe better. But from first glance the plastic section that the clip attaches to has broken out...
• Re: Wipers STILL don't work!! Arrgh!!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:09:47 -0500
  ...agents, but not needed in such places as in the steering column, which are > always dry and contain no fluids to damage the connections...